In 1968, she was cast as Karen Cooper, the daughter of the bickering couple, Helen, and Harry Cooper in Night of the Living Dead. She was depicted as mostly unconscious and only spoke two words of dialogue ("I hurt"). Kyra is the daughter of Karl Hardman, an investor and actor in the film, was selected to play Karen Cooper because of the film's tight budget. In the film, Karen was bitten by a ghoul. Her character later dies and reanimates, feasting on her dead father's arm and bludgeoning her mother to death with a cement trowel.
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